Dayton Biltmore Hotel
| Dayton Biltmore Hotel | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The Biltmore Towers building is now a retirement home (2010) |
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| location | Dayton , Ohio | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 45 '46.3 " N , 84 ° 11' 31.6" W | ||
| Built | 1929 | ||
| architect | Frederick Hughes | ||
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts | ||
| NRHP number | 82003616 | ||
| The NRHP added | 3rd February 1982 | ||
The Dayton Biltmore Hotel is a former luxury hotel in Dayton ( Ohio ), USA . It is now used as a senior citizens' home called Biltmore Towers - Senior Living .
history
The building was constructed in 1929 in the Beaux Arts style in downtown Ohio just a hundred yards from the banks of the Miami River at the junction of E First Street and W Main Street . In one of the city's tallest buildings after completion, the Biltmore Hotel opened that same year and quickly became one of the most prominent hotels in the country.
The name was in reference to the Biltmore House , a mansion on the Biltmore Estates , a country estate near Asheville ( North Carolina ) is selected, the commissioned by George Washington Vanderbilt II was built from 1888 to 1895. At that time he named his property after his surname, which means van der Bildt ( German “from Bildt” ), referring to the municipality of Het Bildt in the Netherlands , from which his family came, and More , the old English word for “wide country ".
The Biltmore Hotel has hosted prominent figures from politics and the arts, such as John F. Kennedy and Elvis Presley , and has also served as a venue for conferences and exhibitions, for example in March 1952 for the first Hamvention , an exhibition and fair for amateur radio .
After being part of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels chain in the early years , it was operated by Hilton from 1946 until the late 1950s . From the 1960s to 1974 it became part of Sheraton Hotels and was called the Sheraton-Dayton Hotel during that time . Then it was renamed again and was called the Biltmore Towers Hotel until 1981 .
In 1981 it was taken over by the Kuhlmann Design Group and redesigned into today's senior citizens' residence. The Biltmore Towers , as they are called today, have 230 apartments with sizes between 46 and 66 square meters as well as leisure facilities such as a restaurant, small shops, snack bars and a doctor's office. The current owner is the Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO) .
On February 3, 1982, the building was included in the official list of cultural monuments in the United States , in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) ( German "National Directory of Historic Places" ).
Web links
- The historic Dayton-Biltmore Hotel th (r) ough the years Historic picture gallery
- Biltmore Towers Senior Living Current web page of the residential complex
- AIMCO website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Biltmore Towers
- ↑ The Dayton-Biltmore in the Milwaukee Journal of December 27, 1927 (English)
- ↑ Biltmore Estate (English)
- ↑ Form Hilton Hotels in the Milwaukee Journal of June 7, 1946 (English)
- ↑ The Dayton Biltmore Hotel in Dayton Vistas from March 20, 2018 (English).